Guest guest Posted February 13, 2001 Report Share Posted February 13, 2001 --- DogmaDay wrote: > DogmaDay > Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:59:43 EST > Even former USDA inspectors go veg > DogmaDay > > List, > > While rummaging around through some of my veg literature, > I found > this interesting tidbit from the May, 2000, edition of > The Planet, a > publication from the Sierra Club. > > As many of you know, The Sierra Club is NOT an animal > rights org. > and does NOT oppose carnivorism nor hunting. But that > just makes > this article even more interesting. Do not give this > group money until > it condemns carnivorism. (I only have this article > because some one > gave it to me.) > > A small brief in the back of the newsletter discusses > Albert Midoux > a former USDA inspector from Anderson, Minn. > > The article states: > > If you aren't a vegetarian, a 10-minute conversation with > Albert Midoux > will probably convince you to be one. Midoux is a > retired food inspector > for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. And he's seen it all. > He once condemned > a truckload of (dead) chicken (flesh) after finding that > carcasses had been > gnawed and urinated on by rats. > > He returned the next day to find out the load had been > processed for sale > anyway. > > There's still plenty of nasty stuff going on today. For > instance, industrial > animal operations want to irradiate food to kill > bacteria. ' " The bacteria's > there because they're (factory farmers) feeding the > animals their own dead. > From other processing plants they bring in remnants and > condemned > carcasses, sometimes green and crawling with maggots. > This is cooked > and dried and fed to cows that humans will eventually > eat, " he says. > > But aren't cows vegetarians? > > " They used to be, " says Midoux. " Also, in a plant just a > half a mile from > my house they make a mix of 80 percent chicken manure and > 20 percent > grain, and feed it to the cows. " > > All these processes occur near waterways so waste can be > dumped and > carried away, he adds. > > " They're treating this planet like we have a spare one, " > he says. > ============= > > FYI, in the third paragraph, when Midoux talks about > feeding dead > cows to living cows, everyone should know that this is > STANDARD > practice in EVERY factory farm all over the world. > > Dead, diseased cows are ground up and fed back to the > living ones. > Dead, diseased chickens are ground up and fed back to the > living ones. > Dead, diseased pigs are ground up and fed back to the > living ones. > > This is done because it is cost efficient for the factory > farmers. Any > way to save a dollar and make a dollar, these people will > do it. The > dead, diseased animals also are routinely ground up and > fed to each > other, e.g., chickens are fed ground up cows, cows fed > ground up > pigs and so on. > > In the U.S., factory farmers claim they do NOT do this > but they are > completely full of shit. As I said before, it is > STANDARD. > > This is why bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE - mad > cow disease) > exists not only in Britain but in the UNIBTED STATES. > Many humans > have caught the human form of BSE known as > Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease > where bacteria eats away at the brain. Even if one does > not catch > Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, people are more than likely to > get certain > cancers (breast, colon and prostate), heart disease > (blocked/clogged > arteries, strokes and heart attacks), diabetes, high > blood pressure > and osteoporosis, to name a few. > > BTW, The Sierra Club also reported that all the manure > from the > animals raised and killed for food could fill box cars > that could > circle the earth eight times. That manure is also mixed > in with > animal feed and fed back to all the animals that most > people eat. > > If ethics and compassion won't convinvce you to remove > all flesh > products from your diet, the aforementioned FACTS should > make > you puke and go vegan. > > > gary yourofsky > adaptt > www.adaptt.org > dogmaday > 810-763-2715 > ===== http://geocities.com/nowrite/ " The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men. " --Alice Walker Get personalized email addresses from Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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